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You know that for a fact? Or you're just assuming because it's funnier to do so?

I watched Fox News live when they first aired the story today. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw that exact segment. They didn't include either a (D) or an (R) next to his name. That's not to say some later repeat didn't put that on a banner, but it wasn't there initially.


Um... Regardless. Am I the only person getting the Sanford and Son song stuck in his head every time I see the thread name? Sheesh!

You got that backwards! Reality has a liberal bias.

I saved the photo I snagged as sanfordandsons.jpg.

Well there is being bias and sneaky, which in my mind is not including the (R), and then there is assuming your viewers are ultra conservatives, and basically sheep. I saw a clip the other day from fox and friends I believe on the daily show. It was something like this.

"Some areas in Iran showed over 100% voter turnout, similar to some cities in the 2008 presidential election, maybe someone should look into that."

I don't have a clip, but here is another good one.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=216561&title=fox-news-fear-imbalance

"He doesn't have his hand on the bible, is he really president"

and of course ORiley "I don't like the line that we don't have to compromise our values to protect ourselves, sometimes I think we do"

I know CNN isn't that much better, but jesus people are ******* idiots. I work at radioshack, and not a week goes by that some redneck doesn't blame Obama for having to buy a digital converter box.

Ah. Finally found something. Looks like it was a brief thing during one part of a segment. Fox News issued a statement about it.

/shrug. The banners are written by interns. What do you expect? Most news sources don't bother to even try to identify party affiliation at all, so it's not surprising that Fox would get it wrong the most often.

What's funny is that the lead in to the news conference segment got it right. So one person put the right letter on one banner, and another person put the wrong one on during the follow up Q&A after the press conference.

Of course it's not a coincidence. They would have been joking about it* because Fox does this on what feels like a regular basis.


*Assuming they were. Didn't read it.

Double.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:17pm by Allegory

Yup. That's the second one I've seen. He's looking to his right instead of to his left, and the woman is looking ahead instead of down. If you look at the banner, you can see that it's advanced about a dozen characters since the other photo (the number in the middle was on the very far right before). That one's about a second or two after the other one.


As I already said. Fox News released a statement about this. It was one banner segment in one part of one show. The leadin had the correct information, and later segments did as well. So while I suppose we could assume some conspiracy, it seems more likely this was just some intern making a mistake. Or some intern deliberately doing it cause he thought it would be funny or something...

The problem is that it has occurred three times previously when a Republican has been utterly embarrassed. They need to stop hiring the same intern every time a Republican decides to cheat on his wife.

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Four times is a pattern.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 4:46pm by Allegory

The Fox silliness aside, it's being reported now that at least one of Sanford's little Argentina visits in the past was a tax-payer funded trip under the pretense of of a "trade mission". And apparently Sanford did meet with government officials while there.

Unfortunately, the US Commerce Department froze high-level trade meetings with Argentina back in 2001 when Argentina defaulted on their international debt and US federal policy is to not to have such missions.

I can see why this guy was being considered a viable GOP candidate for president. Claims family values but has affairs, is willing to starve the SC school system out of stimulus money to oppose wasteful spending but blows through taxpayer dollars to go fuck his mistress in South America and trumpets that love for country while ignoring federal policy so he can get his **** wet. Of course, let's not forget the sound judgement of a man who lies to his staff and runs off to another continent to get some Argentina pussy without even bothering to assure that his state is taken care of in the event of an emergency.

This guy's a real conservative gem.

Edited, Jun 25th 2009 8:54pm by Jophiel

The lesson here ladies, conservative and liberal, Dem and Repub alike: Never marry an alpha male.

(I'm perfectly content with my nerdy professor.)